• New Businesses Accepting Bitcoin
• 🕵️ The Satoshi Cipher – Week 7
• 🧭 On the Radar
• 📅 Featured Events

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” –Henri Bergson

There’s an amazing V4V music night this week!

Powered by Fountain, Antidote and hosted by Aaron of Essex. this is one not to miss.

Also it’s only a few weeks to the Bury St Edmunds Pizza Day so make sure to book your tickets now.

All the details bellow…

This week’s sponsor is…

§New Businesses Accepting Bitcoin

• 🚗 The Barn Alloy Wheel Repair Centre: A specialist alloy wheel repair centre offering professional refurbishment, colour changes, and damage repair for all types of wheels. Combining skilled craftsmanship with modern equipment, they help restore wheels to a high-quality finish while providing reliable, friendly service. Cranleigh GU6 8PL.
• ❄️ Coolflo Air Conditioning: A specialist air conditioning company based in Cobham, KT11 3JZ, serving Surrey and the surrounding areas with installation, servicing, and maintenance for residential and commercial systems. Focused on energy-efficient cooling and heating solutions, Coolflo delivers reliable, professional service to keep spaces comfortable all year round.
• 🍕 The Honesty Box: An artisan woodfired sourdough pizza spot on The Promenade in Penzance, Cornwall, serving handcrafted pizzas alongside homemade sweet treats. Known for simple, quality ingredients and a laid-back coastal vibe, it’s a go-to stop for great food by the sea.

§🕵️ The Satoshi Cipher – Week 7

Prize: 2,000 sats ⚡

Cipher: Base64 turns text into a 64-character alphabet (A–Z, a–z, 0–9, +, /). Decode with any Base64 tool or manual table to recover the ASCII message. No cheating with AI

History: Designed for email attachments, Base64 maps binary data into printable characters so text-only systems can transmit files safely.

Puzzle: TElHSFROSU5HIFdJTlM=

Reply to claim the sats.

Last Week’s Winner: Nick Morris – solved “RUNNING NODES”.

§🧭 On the Radar

Big events further down the line.

🗓️ 30th April - Fountain Special Event - An Introduction to the New Music Economy, Anditode, London

🗓️ 22nd May - BSE: Bitcoin Pizza Day, Bury st Edmunds.

§📅 Featured Events

§🤝 Bitcoin Ireland Conference 2026 – Dublin, May 22–24

Join Ireland’s premier Bitcoin event at The Green Isle Hotel for three days of keynotes, panels, workshops, and exhibitions covering adoption, regulation, mining, ETFs, and more. Network with world-class speakers, authors, and fellow enthusiasts, with family-friendly activities throughout. Early Bird tickets are 50% off, and Whale Pass holders gain access to an exclusive networking trip on May 25. Use code BEUK for an extra 10% off! Don’t miss this chance to dive deep into the future of Bitcoin in Ireland and beyond.

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Get out and support the meetups where you can, visit Bitcoin Events UK for more info on each meetup and to find your closest on the interactive map.

Stay tuned for more updates next week!

Simon.

§Founding Members Shout-out:

• Roger9000 - Check-out his amazing music and Bitcoin work.

• Psyfer - Pleb. Artist. Educator. Munk. cyphermunkhouse.com

• Richard - Co-founder of the Running Bitcoin Challenge.

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